Carbon-paper holder.



No. 654,575. Patented July 24, I900.

L. BAUH; CARBON PAPER HOLDER.

(Application ma Apr. 13, 1900.

(No Model.)

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LEOPOLD RAUH, on DAYTON, orno.

cARsoN-PAPER HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent R0. 654.57 5, dated July 24, 1900.

Application filed April 13, 1900. $erial No. 12,686- (Ilo model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEoPoLD RAUH, a citi= zen of the United States, residingin Dayton, county of Montgomery, and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carbon-Paper Holders for Copies of Business-Papers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to devices for holding manifolding material for use in making copies of business-papers. For bills of lading, receipts of various kinds, and the like it has been customary to pad such sheets printed in duplicate and provided with a central line of perforation to render easy the separation of the original from the duplicate and to secure these pads by a suitable clip to a tabletboard for convenient use. When padded in this way, quite a thick package of sheets is presented, and if the manifolding material is of the proper size to cover the duplicate sheet and is secured to the stub of the package as the sheets are removed the sheet of carbonpaper necessarily fails to cover the duplicate sheet completely as the distance from the top of the stub to the end of the sheet increases. Moreover, when thus secured the stub of the package forms a shoulder against which the carbon-paper is soon frayed and worn away.

It is the purpose of my invention, therefore, to obviate these difficulties by providing a carbon-paper holder which shall always maintain the properposition of the manifolding material with relation to the paper sheets as the package is used. This I accomplish in the manner to be hereinafter particularly pointed out and claimed, in which the carbon material is mounted in a holder arranged to slide on posts at the sides of the tablet, so that the carbon-paper may always be maintained in proper manifolding position.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvements applied to a tablet holding a package of business-papers. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the same detached. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section, and Fig. at is a detail front view, of a portion of the plate for holding the carbon-paper.

A is a tablet-board provided with an ordinary springmlip B for holding a package of business-papers G, such as are used for bills of lading and the like. These slips are preferably padded and provided with two lines of perforation to form a stub portion a, duplicate slip b, and original slip c, the originals being printed on the reverse side, so that when folded at the center perforation entries on the original will be transferred To the duplicate by the carbon-paper D. The holder for securing this carbon-paper is constructed substantially as follows:

E is a wire rod preferably hinged or secured in any esired way to the lower edge of the tablet-board across the top. This wire is bent upward, forward, and back again to the tablet to form supporting-posts d d, the lower ends of these posts being preferably bent inward at e e to enter notches in the sides of the tablet-board to hold the supports in'fixed position. Mounted to slide up and down 011 these posts is a sheet of metalF, folded horizontally at the middle to form. a vertically recessed plate and provided with sleeves ff at the ends, by which the metal sheet is mounted on the posts to slide freely thereon. Between the folds of this plate F is mounted the plate G, provided with a horizontal slot g therein. The ends of this plate G are bent over the front half of the plate F to hold frictionally the slotted plate Gin position, but to allow movement of the plate when it is desired to shift same by the finger-pieces h h. Instead of bending the sheet of metal to form the vertically-recessed plate F a bar of metal could be employed, recessed vertically and provided with sleeves f f, as will be readily understood. To secure the carbon material, the plate G is pushed down to expose the slot g, the end of the carbon-paper is inserted in the slot, and the plate pushed back, thus fastening the carbon-paper between plates G and F. The sleeves f f slide loosely on the rods d d, so that to insert the package of slips 0 and to secure them by the clip B to the tablet-board the carbon-holder is pushed to the top of the posts, when the package can ordinarily be secured in position. In addition to this the carbon-holder can be secured to the tablet-board by the rod E in hinged relation to the board, so that the holder can be swung back out of the way when desired.

It will be evident from the foregoing do up the carbon-holder "sliding easily on the rods cl d, as it does, will follow down with the diminished package and always retain the carbon-paper in proper position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is-- 1. The combination of a tablet-board and clip for holding packages of paper slips, a clamping device for the carbon material secured to said board, and means for sliding said device toward and-away from thetablet, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of a tablet-board and clip for holding packages of paper slips, uprights secured to the tablet-board, and a clamping device for the carbon material mounted to slide vertically on said uprights, substantially as shown and described.

The combination of atablet-board and clip for holding packages of paper slips, uprights secured to the tablet-board, a vertically-recessed plate with sleeves mounted to slide on said uprights, and means for securing the carbon materialtolsaid'plate.

4. The combination of a tablet-board and clipv for holding packages of paper slips, uprights secured to' the tablet-board, a vertically-recessed platewith sleeves mounted to slide on said uprights,'and'a slotted plate for the insertion of .the carbon material, sliding in said recessed plate and frictionally secured to same, substantiallyas shown and described. 5; In a carbon l paper holder for tabletboards, a frame hinged to the tablet-board along one end thereof, and carrying uprights at the ends of said frame and a clamping device for the carbon material, mounted to slide vertically on said uprights, substantially as shown and described.

'LEoPoL RAUI-I, Witnesses:

AUGUST J. ScHMITr, Mosns HOFFMANN. 

